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The pirates who stole America's metric standards
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The United States might have adopted logical measurements if it weren't for swashbuckling thieves. A French scientist was sailing across the ocean to present standardized weights to American officials, but his ship was intercepted by privateers. The goods were stolen, and the states were permanently stuck with completely chaotic imperial measurements.
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